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Originally a New England native, I moved to Virginia about 23 years ago. My family still lives in the Rhode Island / Massachusetts area.
Although my name is Emanuel, most people at the firm know me as Manny. In the open source community I'm also known as Nino, pronounced 'NEENO', or Nino.Borges. Nino was a nickname given to me by my family when I was younger.

In March of 2007, I moved back to the Massachusetts area to be closer to my family.

Current Employment

Prior to McDermott

From 1998 to 2007 I worked in the technology department of McGuireWoods LLP, a large law firm in the Richmond Virginia area.
Specifically, for the 4 of the 9 years, I woked as a Project Manager and Software Developer for the Practice Support department, with a strong focus on technology as it relates to Electronic Document Discovery.
I believe there are firms that refer to this as a Practice Support Technologist but project management and direct contact with clients and our legal staff was still a large portion of my job.

Development and support for firm's matter management and client relation system

Summation "add-on" software development (Litigation Support tools)

Automation of large scale text file manipulation and conversion through custom programs written by me

Design, setup and support for large document reviews utilizing internal and temporary attorneys

Negotiation of agreements with outside vendors and the management of their performance based on those agreements

Delegate tasks to our junior level members

Career Highlights:

Design and creation of Summation Extension, a program that lets us quickly and efficiently create electronic document productions from Summation.

Design and creation of the Practice Support Portal(screen shots coming soon), an online collaboration environment developed using Python and Zope, that allows us to track our tasks and projects, acts as our main knowledge base and allows the paralegals to check up on the status of their Summation database creation and data load requests

Development of a program that automatically creates an auto loading hyper textual "Presentation CD" from document exhibits, which was recently used in a conference hosted by a client of the firm. I was told that it was appreciated by our legal staff for it's ease of use and impressed our client by it's professional look, being able to hand out autoloading CDs as apposed to paper handouts, and low creation cost

Creation, implementation, upgrade and support of our "Media Station", which the team uses for converting various forms of source media, including VHS into Mpeg, WMV, streamable web media and fully authored DVDs with integrated menus. This station of machines is also where the team syncs Trial Director transcripts

Previous Work History

Before starting in the Practice Support department, I spent the majority of my career at McGuireWoods in the Desktop Architecture group.
Responsibilities in this group included:

Creation, testing, research and implementation of new technologies for the firm